Hillary Clinton’s campaign recently received some massive loans from her biggest supporter: Hillary Clinton.
Clinton’s personal injection of $6.4 million - on top of the $5 million she loaned herself in January - is just one of many signs that her campaign’s demise is imminent.
Barack Obama’s camp has pointed out Clinton’s loans and campaign manager David Plouffe urged supporters via email to make small donations to match her latest boost:
“We need to show that the voices of more than 1.5 million ordinary people donating whatever they can afford are more powerful than one person giving more than $11 million to their own campaign,” he writes. “Now is the time add your voice to our historic movement. Make a donation of $25 to match Senator Clinton’s loan.”
This should be the end to Clinton’s claims that Obama is “elitist.” One cannot invest more than $11 million of her personal fortune into her campaign, then point the finger at a candidate whose vast funds come from millions of small donations.
So what’s Clinton to do if she can’t charge Obama with elitism? “Bittergate” is dead. People are sick of hearing about Rev. Wright, and his ranting didn’t hurt Obama all that much anyway. Her superdelegates are defecting. Prominent party leaders are urging her to quit. Even a simple Google search of “Clinton” comes up with nothing but bad headlines for Hillary:
“The recurring case of Clinton fatigue”
“Clinton’s Still in, but Obama Envisions End”
“Democrats wait and wonder when Hillary Clinton will concede defeat”
It’s unclear whether Clinton is staying in the race because she genuinely thinks she can win the Democratic nomination or because she’s simply gone too far to give up before the definitive end. At a rally in West Virginia, Clinton said, “I’m running to be president of all 50 states. I think we ought to keep this going so the people of West Virginia’s voices are heard.”
Perhaps she’s still banking on one of two things: convincing superdelegates to back her, or seating the Michigan and Florida delegates as they’ve already voted. In the first case, she would be overturning the will of the majority of voters and, in the second, thumbing her nose at DNC rules.
Not good for the people. Not good for the party. Not good for the general election.
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